Tuesday, February 20, 2007

2004 movie: Snail tarts not digested in lion (4,2,11)

Why does it say 'Welcome to you're "Doom!"'?
What does that even mean, and why, for God's sakes, is "Doom!" in quotes?
-- Killface, Frisky Dingo (Pimp My Revenue)

Sometimes, I get frustrated by bad grammar or lazy translation. Here's another example:

I now run on the treadmill a couple times a week. Each workout is about 42 minutes becuase that's how long it takes to watch an episode of 24. Afterwards, I go straight into our basement shower and clean off.

The shower curtain has washing instructions in English, French, and Spanish. The English instructions suggest to "Machine wash warm", which is translated "lavar en lavadora con agua tibia" in Spanish. The instructions to "Tumble dry warm" are symmetrically translated "secar en secadora con agua tibia".

Someone doesn't know much about Spanish. Or maybe much about drying things.

Or maybe not too much about either.
posted at 6:46 PM